Shoe heel



B. SUMMERFIELD.

SHOE HEEL 4 APPLICATION man ocr. 2a. 1920- 1,426,019 Patented Aug. 15,1922.

anwntoz ar/mad UNH'EE STATES BERNARD SUMMERFIELD,OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHOE HEEL.

- Specification of Letters Patent. Patnnfed Aug. 15, 1922.

Application filed October 23, 1920 Serial No, 418,974.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that BERNARD SUMMnnrmLn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of Qhicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe Heels; and he does hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the invention, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in shoe heels and more particularly to what is known in the art as a detachable heel. The main object of this invention is the provision of a shoe heel and means whereby the heel can be quickly and readily attached to the body of the shoe or removed therefrom when so desired.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of means including a plate attached to the body of a shoe for detachably securing the heel to the shoe, the heel being rovided with means for engaging portions of the plate to retain the same in its proper position with respect to the body of the shoe and while securely held in position can be quickly and readily detached from the shoe at any time.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a detachable shoe heel, whereby either a wooden heel or a heel of any other material can be quickly and readily attached to the body of a shoe and securely held in its proper position or can be readily detached when so desired.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in the claim and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe heel, parts thereof being broken away and illus trated in section to show the application of my improved detachable heel,

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the heel,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the attaching plate, 1

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view,

illustrating a slightly modified form of plate.

In carrying out my invention, I first provide the heel member 1 with a longitudinal slot 2, having undercut grooves 8 in the side the heel has been moved walls thereof, to provide'a substantially T- shaped slot formed inithe upper face of the heel 1. Arranged within this slot is acorrespondingly shaped metal'plate 8, having a tongue a struck up from the central portion thereof, as illustrated in Figure 2, said tongue being movable within the slot 2 and adapted to be presseddownwardly into the bottom of the slot so that the upper face thereof will lie flush with the body portion of the plate 3. v i '1 v The body of the shoe, most generally indicated by the numeral 4, has attached to its heel portion a metal plate 5, said plate being securely fastened means of screws or other fastening members to the body of the shoe by adapted to be extended through the open- 1 lngs 6 in the plate and engagedwith the shoe 4;. The plate 5 is provided upon one face thereof with the spaced outstanding ears 7 having flanges disposed at right angles to the ears, ject beyond the side portions of the ears, as indicated at 8 to form engaging flanges.

From this, it will be noted that when the heel member 1 is attached to the body of the shoe, the flange portions in the undercut grooves of the plate 3 while the ears 7 will be disposed within the longitudinal groove 2. In order to retain the heel member 1 in a locked position with respect to the shoe 4 after the same has been attached thereto, the tongue 05 will spring outwardly and engage with the ear 7 at the rear of the heel, as clearly indicated in Figure 1, thus preventing the removal of the heel 1 from the plate 5.

In order to attach the heel member 1 to the body of the shoe 4, the tongue a is depressed so that it will pass beneath the first one of the flanges 8 when the same are inserted within the undercut grooves in the plate 3? and after passing beneath this flange, the tongue will spring outwardly to the position illustrated in Figure 1. After to its proper position with respect to the shoe, the same is secured in position by having the screw members 10 extending through the openings 11 in the down-turned ear 9 of the plate 5 and engaging with the trated in Figure 1. The plate 3 is also provided with a perforated ear 7) and the screw 10 passes through this plate prior to entering the body of the heel 1.

In order to remove the heel member 1 the outer ends of which proheelmember 1, as illus-' 8 will engage withfrom the body of the shoe, an instrument is inserted through the openings 0 which are formed Within the ear 9 and the forward one of the ears 7 until the same engages the tongue 0 whereby it can be depressed downwardly and disengaged from the rearmost ear 7 so that this ear will readily pass over the tongue and permit the removal of the heel 1.

In Figure 4-, I have illustrated a slightly modified form of the invention wherein one of the flange members is formed integral with the stop plate 9 instead of providing an ear 7 on the plate 5. This flange member, which is indicated by 8, is arranged upon the stop plate 9 in such a position that it will be readily received into the undercut grooves 3 of the heel 1.

What I claim is:

The combination with a shoe having a plateattached to the heel portion thereof,

turned ear on the spaced outstanding ears formed on said plate flanges disposed at right angles to the ears and having their ends projecting beyond the side portions of the ears and a down turned ear formed at one end of the plate, of a heel member having a longitudinal slot provided in its side walls with undercut grooves to receive the projecting ends of the flanges, a correspondingly shaped metal plate arranged within said slot and grooves, a tongue struck up from the central portion of said plate and normally projecting upwardly within the slot for engagement with one of the outstanding ears on the plate when the heel is attached to the shoe and means for connecting the down plate to the body of the heel as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

BERNARD SUMMERFIELD. 

